A Scrubbing on the Doorstep

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
A Scrubbing on the Doorstep
signed 'Sickert' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1941.

Provenance

Chas. A. Jackson, Manchester, November 1941.
Dr. A. W. Laing; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1970, lot 70.
with New Grafton Gallery, London.
J. M. Rampton, Norwich.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 November 1993, lot 46, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no. 446, pl. 299.
Exhibition catalogue, Sickert Paintings, London, Royal Academy, and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 1992-1993, p. 53, fig. 67.
W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, no. 787, p. 562, illustrated.

Exhibited

Leeds, Temple Newsam House, The Life of Walter Richard Sickert, March - May 1942, no. 200.
Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (C.E.M.A.), Sickert, touring exhibition 1942-43, no. 30.
Bury, Borough Art Gallery, Steer, Sickert, Epstein, February - March 1954, no. 52.
Three Decades 1915-1945, October - November 1970, catalogue not traced.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The subject of this work is St. George's Hill House, Bathampton where Sickert lived from December 1938 until his death in January 1942.

Wendy Baron in her 2006 catalogue of the artist's paintings and drawings, comments, 'Catalogued at Leeds in 1942 as having been completed in November 1941. Like the late Bath townscapes it is painted very thinly in pale, washed out colours and is almost monochromatic in effect' (see W. Baron, 2006, loc. cit.)

A smaller version of the same subject was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, Late Sickert, 1982, no. 120 and is recorded by Wendy Baron, 2006, op. cit., no. 787.1.

The present work is recorded by Dr Wendy Baron as the last picture that Sickert painted.

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